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Times article: surrogacy
Bakingdiva · 06/03/2022 15:16
I saw this article today about same sex surrogacy.
Peter Dundas on surrogacy: ‘People think, oh, same-sex couples — they buy a baby’
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/78526d60-9944-11ec-84fe-a2a0efa555d1?shareToken=5501606db6ab581c591892c53d3e9365
One particular phrase jumped out at me (screenshot attached).
I had to check if read it right - KK was going to give them her surrogate - GIVE!!!!!!
EventuallyDelighted · 06/03/2022 18:26
Even more tone deaf when they pubiished this article about surrogacy in Ukraine on the same day ‘Bring our unborn British babies home from Ukrainian surrogate mothers.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0c68884a-9cab-11ec-a6a5-32c563cf34cb?shareToken=45b3ca1abccf68858500baa07fad8c83
Delphinium20 · 06/03/2022 18:54
That's who you're really having a baby with. That's the genes. *We had to be super picky
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All of this is so, so vile. Picking women (young women 18,19, 20 who haven't had children mind you) as if they were paint colors or lipsticks. And then the dismissal of the surrogate mother (guess they aren't really having the baby with her).
It's eugenics. It's baby trafficking. It's exploitation of women. It's the buying, selling and renting of human beings.
And fuck Kim Kardashian thinking she can give a woman to a man for a baby. Biblical, isn't it? Like Sarah who gave her enslaved woman to her husband to rape. This is The Handmaid's Tale.
OhHolyJesus · 08/03/2022 08:49
May I suggest that any complaints be sent to The Times?
www.thetimes.co.uk/static/the-times-editorial-complaints/
I'll be sending another round, though I have to say, overall there is a general balance between the pro and against if you look at it as a whole.
OhHolyJesus · 08/03/2022 08:50
More discussion here
Surrogacy in Ukraine - Times article www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4486282-Surrogacy-in-Ukraine-Times-article
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